@Christian @Brett Thanks very much for the '\&'. When I read the pattern.txt in vim help I always ignore the first section and wallow in those "fascinating" pattern atoms and character classes :-p
@Reid Thanks all the same. Regards, Xell On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Stahlman Family <brettstahl...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Stahlman Family wrote: >> >> >> Xell Liu wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> For example, when I want to search all letters and digits (i.e. all >>> [:alnum:] ) except the two letters "a" and "b" (without quotes), how >>> should I do that instead of stupidly enumerating all the characters I >>> want? >>> >>> The real question I want to ask is: >>> 1. The items I want to include in search are too many to enumerate >>> them manually, like [\x00-\xff]; >>> 2. The items I want to exclude are very few; >>> What's the simplest way to write the search regular expression? >> >> You can use concats. > > Sorry. The correct term was "branch", not concat... > > Brett Stahlman > > ...[snip]... > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
